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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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